What are the characteristics of saury? Why is saury bitter?

In my country, saury is often found in Japanese restaurants or sushi restaurants. It is the main ingredient of Japanese cuisine in autumn. Some of the more popular dishes featuring saury are: grilled saury, salt-grilled saury, saury sashimi, saury sushi, etc. Some friends want to know why saury is bitter. Let's talk about it together.

Contents of this article

1. Characteristics of saury

2. Why is saury bitter?

3. Tips on eating saury

Characteristics of saury

The advantages of eating saury are: fragrant and tender meat; the disadvantage is that it has a slightly strong fishy smell, so cats generally like it very much, which is why Jay Chou's lyrics of "Qilixiang" say that cats want to know the taste of saury. It is easy to feel sick of saury halfway through eating it. The editor recommends that you can eat saury with some lighter vegetables to eliminate the fishy smell of saury and balance the nutrition of your diet; or eat saury with stronger side dishes such as miso soup, pickled radish, spicy cucumbers, etc. to achieve the effect of "one flavor covering another flavor" (remember to drink plenty of water after the meal).

In my country, saury is often found in Japanese restaurants or sushi restaurants. It is the main ingredient of Japanese cuisine in autumn. Some of the more popular dishes featuring saury are: kabayaki saury, salt-grilled saury, saury sashimi, saury sushi, etc. Among them, Encyclopedia Knowledge Network recommends kabayaki saury and salt-grilled saury, which are often must-order dishes marked on the menu of Japanese restaurants.

The crude fat content of saury is high, so the meat is tender and tastes good. Not only does it taste good, but it is also very beneficial to human health. It is rich in protein, fatty acids, and unsaturated fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which are indispensable to the human body. EPA and DHA can inhibit high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, and arteriosclerosis.

Why is saury bitter?

Because the fish gallbladder in the saury's body is broken, when the fish gallbladder is accidentally broken, the fish meat will be sticky with the bile acid of the fish which is insoluble in water and become bitter.

Food precautions for saury

Saury has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Most people are suitable for eating saury, including those with a healthy and balanced constitution, qi deficiency constitution, yang deficiency constitution, etc. However, patients with liver cirrhosis are not suitable for eating saury. Because saury contains eicosapentaenoic acid, one of the metabolites of eicosapentaenoic acid is prostacyclin, which can inhibit platelet aggregation. Patients with liver cirrhosis have low platelet counts due to coagulation factor production disorders. If they eat fish containing a lot of eicosapentaenoic acid, the platelet aggregation function will be reduced again, which can easily cause bleeding and is difficult to stop. Patients with liver cirrhosis who have a tendency to bleed should be highly vigilant about fish containing a lot of eicosapentaenoic acid and should not eat them.